California Gardens - Ornamental Grasses


Ornamental Grass List ~ Plants with grass-like foliage
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Grasses, sedges and rushes are a great addition to the landscape. The ornamental grasses can be very short, from just a few inches tall to 10 feet or more. Some of the ornamental grasses are very fertile and can cause problems in the landscape and in the wild if they escape. Other ornamental grasses seem quite tame. I use the ornamental grasses and similar plants often to soften a border or to provide movement in the landscape. Or in some cases to make a very lush environment. The ornamental grasses will rustle in the wind. Many of these plants, such as Scirpus, Carex, Juncus, and Chondropetalum, are great in or near water. Though if you are near a wetland you should have caution when planting plants that might do just a little too well if they escape. Lomandra is even fragrant. I can smell ours as I walk down the garden path long before I get there.	Calibanus hookeri * Mexican Boulder Carex buchananii * Leather Leaf Sedge Carex glauca * Grey Sedge Carex morrowii * Variegated Sedge Carex testacea * Orange Sedge Chondropetalum tectorum * Cape Reed Helictotrichon sempervirens * Blue Oat Grass Hesperaloe parviflora * Red Yucca Liriope Silver Dragon * Variegated Lilyturf Lomandra longifolia * Mat Rush Miscanthus sinensis Cosmopolitan * Variegated Eulalea Grass Miscanthus sinensis variegatus * Japanese Silver Grass Miscanthus sinensis zebrinus * Zebra Grass Nassella tenuissima * Mexican Feather Grass Ophiopogon planiscapus nigrescens * Black Mondo Grass Pennisetum setaceum rubrum * Red Fountain Grass Phormium tenax Jack Spratt Rhychelytrum neriglume * Ruby Grass Sisyrinchium bellum * Blue Eyed Grass Sisyrinchium striatum * Yellow Blue Eyed Grass Typha domingensis * Southern Cattail Zephyranthes candida * Fairy Lily

Ornamental Grass List ~ Plants with grass-like foliage